After Khloe Wilson was depicted as a suspect in Netflix’s Unknown Number: The High School Catfish, she has apparently shared her side of the story about her alleged involvement in the cyberbullying scandal in a series of TikTok videos.
Wilson, 18, was a classmate of cyberbully victim Lauryn Licari, while she was also good friends with her then-boyfriend, Owen McKenny. After Lauryn, 18, and McKenny, 18, started receiving nasty text messages, Wilson became the main suspect before Lauryn’s mom, Kendra Licari, was ultimately found guilty.
“Hi guys, I’m Khloe. Um, I’m one of the kids who got framed in the Unknown Number on Netflix that just came out today, and I was gonna tell a little bit more of my story about it,” Wilson began in a video shared via an unverified TikTok account. While the person in the video appears to be the same person in the documentary, Wilson’s profile is not verified. However, Life & Style has reached out to the account for comment.
Wilson explained that the drama started when she was in the seventh or eighth grade. At the time, her mom would host annual Halloween parties for her and her classmates.
Wilson said that everyone was invited to the party. “I had no idea that there was a random text going around about [Lauryn] not getting invited to these parties until Kendra called or text my mom and asked her if it was me who sent the text to Lauryn,” she recalled. “So, my mom got the text from Kendra and she was like, ‘No, like, everyone was invited.’”
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By the end of the eighth grade, Wilson was aware that McKenny had gotten a few text messages. However, she didn’t know much about the harassment that he and Lauryn were facing. It wasn’t until their freshman year of high school when McKenny asked Wilson if she was behind the messages.
“I was like, ‘I have no idea what you’re even talking about. Like I, at this point, thought it was like one, like, bad text or a couple of random texts that, like, someone sent. I was like, ‘No. Like, brush it off,’” she said.
In a following video, Wilson explained that McKenny continued asking her if she was the one sending the texts “pretty much every day.” She also said that conversations she and her friends would have in science class “would always end up in the text,” which made McKenny even more suspicious of her.
Wilson eventually told McKenny to take her phone for the day to see if he would still get texts.
Wilson continued her story in a third video, explaining that Lauryn and McKenny ultimately reported the text messages to the police. “I would come home from school crying to my mom and dad, like, everyday,” she said, noting that her father is a police officer. “He would sit there and just press me for hours and hours when I got home. He’d take my phone at night.”
She recalled that her parents took her phone away after a basketball game, and they later explained that they got a call from the sheriff accusing her of being the person behind the text messages. “I just felt like no one believed me,” she said, noting that her parents also believed she was behind the texts.
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After she was accused by Kendra and McKenny’s moms of sending the messages, Wilson met with the sheriff to discuss the situation.
In a fourth video, she explained she was “almost in tears” during the meeting because she was “so frustrated” that no one believed her. Wilson said she gave her phone to the sheriff and he wasn’t able to find any evidence that she sent the messages. She also “dumped” her phone for McKenny and their friends to see that she wasn’t sending the texts.
In her fifth and final video, Wilson explained that she and her father went through paperwork that documented the messages sent to Lauryn and McKenny to see where she was at the time they were being sent. Despite maintaining her innocence, Wilson remained a suspect and continued to have meetings with the sheriff about her alleged involvement.
At the end of the clip, Wilson explained that Kendra finally confessed to sending the messages and she even spoke in court.
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Following her arrest, Kendra pleaded guilty to two counts of stalking a minor. She was sentenced to serve 19 months in prison and was released in August 2024.
While she did participate in the documentary, she is not allowed to be in contact with Lauryn or McKenny.
